Posted on 02/03/2005 6:00:06 PM PST by Gondring
They are both excellent feints. As bluffs they depend on the cards in the attackers head.
Whatever. You keep believing that.
She was old enough and mature enough to make up her own mind. Her prior upbringing is a minor point. It's the "here and now" that matters.
If some idiot criminal punk is holding a gun aimed at you. Try not to taunt. Its not television, its real life. There won't be reruns and royalties.
While the shooter should be executed in public, IMO, that is a really stupid thing to say to a man with a gun.
Oh, Darwin Award nominee?
Harsher penalties deter crime.
Everything in the lives of all concerned led up to that moment. None of them could have acted any different. It's one of those deals where everything changes in an instant because of a couple wrong choices.
This happend in NYC. They've got the toughest gun laws in the country, next to Washington, DC.
Ok, then my only other advice is to practice your snap shot and use hollow points. Good luck.
I just play the odds...
You know, 15 years ago, I remember watching this guy with a giant mustache talking about how to deal with muggers.
He said, when confronted with a gun, grab your wallet and throw it away, run in the opposite direction. He stated most fatal gunshots occur within 10 feet, beyond 10 feet, chances of getting a fatal hit drop to almost zero. I don't know who he is, but some freeper will prolly identify him, but it's damn good advice. Unless you can blow the scumbag away, toss yer wallet and run. He also said to women, NEVER get in the vehicle. If you do, you're most likely going to be killed. If you get a chance to run, do it, beyond 10 feet, you're probably going to live.
I think that was really good advice and Ms. Dufrane prolly never heard it.
Do you remember being 14?
She didn't pull the trigger.
I think the poor girl panicked, in her way.
BTW, pray tell how are YOU going to make it happen in ONE generation? You sound a little off balance to me, considering the rural areas will be reaping the whirlwind of crystal meth in pretty much the same way that crack went through big inner cities. So let's here your plan for the black crime problem.
I know there's some sentiment around here, largely unspoken, that another leftie got wasted because she either wasn't carrying a gun, somehow deserved it because she was a leftie, or was somehow asking for it.
That's just wrong.
She didn't deserve this at all.
If that is not an accurate quote. I wonder how it got started?
I would not have been out at three in the morning with four other thugs on the weekend. I had a mother interested in my life.
Robbery is how they finance themselves, but the self-esteem part is VERY true. The lefties don't like this part, but good research has shown that the thing leading to this violence is not LOW self-esteem, but when someone's self-esteem is threatened. In other words, if we prop it up artificially, it is more likely to be threatened, leading violent reactions to try to preserve the false self-image.
I've seen the crystal meth people -- much more scary than crack heads.
Man, I miss good old fashioned junkies.
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